If you see videos marked as private don't worry. BotB is going to try out publish dates so videos can be posted close to daily at or around 3pm PST. I've seen chiptune channels with 1k+ followers so why can't BotB do the same?

ok so I found out that scheduled videos are not viewable until their scheduled release time -- I assumed they were unlisted or private but viewable before the release time so I have to rethink this announcement process

alright -- all the scheduled videos (posted here already) are now public

I'm switching strategies to uploading new videos as private and then switching them to public manually when it's time (usually 3pm CST hopefully mostly daily). Also I've heard that this helps to keep youtube from auto-demonetizing videos for some reason. Whatevs!

because the unicode glyphs are typically not present in any given font
your OS fills them in using a "complete" font when they're missing
so I have to switch to something like Times New Roman
or a graphics generator that supports said modern behavior